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This publication explores the possible development of global foreign policy and normative foreign policy actors for the 21st century. The contributors apply an analytical grid to case studies of the actual foreign policy behavior of the principal global actors of China, India, Russia, the EU and the US to study likely future outcomes. The publication outlines how the biggest policy cleavage is between the old democracies that give weight to their values and elements of international law that they themselves established, and the new powers who have in living memory experienced colonialism or humiliating defeats at the hands of the old democracies, and as a result give weight to the principles of non-interference, blended in the cases of India and China with more ancient philosophical traditions.